OpenGlyph — Catalogue of the American Public DomainJurisdiction: United StatesRev. 2026.08
Images / art

Two archives, queried live.

Every record below comes from The Met or Smithsonian Open Access and was filtered on that archive’s own rights field before it reached this page. 24 shown for “Objects from Theban Tomb MMA 840” — 64 records examined, 24 dropped by the rights gate.

Archives queried 2026-09-02 22:00 UTC · fetched live for this request

Object
Public domainThe Met’s isPublicDomain field is true for this object.
CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian’s metadata_usage.access reads CC0 — a waiver, not an expired term.
Not shownAnything failing its archive’s rights field is dropped server-side and never appears here.
Objects from Theban Tomb MMA 840

Objects from Theban Tomb MMA 840

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
View of the Theban Mountains from Kineh, by Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

View of the Theban Mountains from Kineh

Miner Kilbourne Kellogg, born Manlius Square, NY 1814-died Toledo, OH 1889

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Relief from the Tomb of Nespekashuty

Artist not stated in the record · 656–650 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Tomb Carving from the Museum at Athens, Greece

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 14-25, 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sweret Bead

Sweret Bead

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–1981 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Plate Depicting Virgil's Tomb (Tomba di Virgilio), from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute"), by Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735

Plate Depicting Virgil's Tomb (Tomba di Virgilio), from a "Topographical" Dinner or Dessert Service ("A Vedute")

Doccia Porcelain Factory, Italian, established 1735 · ca. 1810–1820

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Travelling Boat being Rowed

Travelling Boat being Rowed

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1981–1975 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Urn Tomb, Silk Tomb, and Corinthian Tomb, Petra, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Urn Tomb, Silk Tomb, and Corinthian Tomb, Petra, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 26, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Sa Amulet

Sa Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–1981 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Tomb Portrait of Queen Isabella I of Castile, by Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

Tomb Portrait of Queen Isabella I of Castile

Raimundo de Madrazo, Spanish, 1841–1920

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Menat necklace from Malqata

Menat necklace from Malqata

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1386–1347 BCE

Public domainThe Met
The Royal Tombs at Petra, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

The Royal Tombs at Petra, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 25-27, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Raised relief fragment

Raised relief fragment

Artist not stated in the record · 664–610 BCE

Public domainThe Met
Stagecoach, Pompeii, Italy, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Stagecoach, Pompeii, Italy

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · April 1869

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Relief scene of sacred objects to be used in Khety's funeral

Relief scene of sacred objects to be used in Khety's funeral

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 2051–2000 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
The Entombment, from The Little Passion Series, by Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528

The Entombment, from The Little Passion Series

Albrecht Dürer, German, 1471–1528 · ca. 1509–11

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Uninscribed Scarab

Uninscribed Scarab

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar, At Secundra, Near Agra, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Gate of the Tomb of the Emperor Akbar, At Secundra, Near Agra, from "Oriental Scenery: Twenty Four Views in Hindoostan"

Artist not stated in the record · 1795-1803

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Nine Taweret Amulets

Nine Taweret Amulets

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Stage Design, Ancient Roman Tombs, by Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872

Stage Design, Ancient Roman Tombs

Romolo Achille Liverani, Italian, 1809 - 1872 · early 19th century

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Taweret Amulet

Taweret Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Ten Sketches of Tombs and a Mountainside, Petra, Jordan, by Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900

Ten Sketches of Tombs and a Mountainside, Petra, Jordan

Frederic Edwin Church, American, 1826–1900 · February 26, 1868

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
Falcon Amulet

Falcon Amulet

Artist not stated in the record · ca. 1850–1700 B.C.

Public domainThe Met
Proof for textile: The tomb of J.J.Rousseau, by Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815

Proof for textile: The tomb of J.J.Rousseau

Oberkampf & Cie., Jouy-en-Josas, France, 1759–1815 · 1780

CC0 (public-domain equivalent)Smithsonian
What was queried

Where these records came from.

Two archives are wired, and only two. Each one is filtered on its own rights field — never on a title match, and never on the presence of an image file.

  • The Met Collection API (Open Access)Rights field: isPublicDomain. 484 matched · 24 examined · 2 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where isPublicDomain === true and a file URL was published.12 shown
  • Smithsonian Open Access API (api.si.edu)Rights field: content.descriptiveNonRepeating.metadata_usage.access. 1471061 matched · 40 examined · 22 dropped by the rights gate. Kept only where metadata_usage.access === "CC0" and an image resource was published.12 shown

These figures describe the pass run at 2026-09-02 22:00 UTC, during this request. A completed pass is kept for 24 hours and replayed for an identical search, which is what keeps repeated queries inside Smithsonian’s 30-requests-per-hour allowance. A pass in which either archive failed to answer is never kept — an outage must not be replayed as though it were a finding about the catalogue.

Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress are deliberately not wired. Wikimedia was confirmed, on a live query, to return CC-BY material inside the same result set as genuine public domain works, and filtering it safely has not been designed yet. loc.gov was blocked by bot detection during the source evaluation, so its rights vocabulary has never been observed — and nothing here is built on a field nobody has read.

An image file is a rights claim. It never travels without its field.